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Selling Our Souls: The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States
Adam Dalton Reich
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Description for Selling Our Souls: The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States
Hardback. Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of US gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. This book looks at the contradictions inherent in one particular health care market - hospital care. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JHB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but to trust those who provide them care, but even those providers confront a great deal of medical uncertainty about the services they offer. Selling Our Souls looks at the contradictions inherent in one particular health care market--hospital care. Based on extensive interviews and observations across the three ... Read more
Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but to trust those who provide them care, but even those providers confront a great deal of medical uncertainty about the services they offer. Selling Our Souls looks at the contradictions inherent in one particular health care market--hospital care. Based on extensive interviews and observations across the three ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691160405
SKU
V9780691160405
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Ref
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About Adam Dalton Reich
Adam D. Reich is assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University. He is the author of Hidden Truth and With God on Our Side.
Reviews for Selling Our Souls: The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 "This book is an important resource for academic audiences and professionals in the health disciplines as well as those in the social sciences."
Choice "Kudos to Adam Reich for this well-researched book! Students of medical sociology, as well as health management and policy, will find Selling Our Souls useful."
Okori Uneke, Ph.D., International Social ... Read more
Choice "Kudos to Adam Reich for this well-researched book! Students of medical sociology, as well as health management and policy, will find Selling Our Souls useful."
Okori Uneke, Ph.D., International Social ... Read more